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It’s been 20 years since Stockholm became the world’s first city to create a formal climate action plan.
Back then, the city was producing 5.4 tons of greenhouse gases (CO2eq) per person a year.
The city’s latest target is only 2.3 tons per person for 2020, just three years from now.
If metropolitan Stockholm, a fast-growing area of over two million people, can constrain its greenhouse gases to net-zero annual emissions, no one will ever be able to accuse it of not doing its part to protect the climate.
More importantly, what can other nations and cities learn from Stockholm’s progress on the path toward a fossil-fuel-free future?
The answer requires a deeper understanding of what Stockholm is doing today, and how the city came to be so committed to a sustainable future.
With many nations failing to reduce their emissions despite the growing global climate emergency, the actions of cities to reduce greenhouse gases is all the more critical.
Stockholm, for example, is an active participant in the C40 Climate Cities Leadership Network of 90 cities representing 650 million people, the Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance, and the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy to which 7,445 cities are committed.
Stockholm has divided the responsibility for assuring the achievement of this 2030 goal among various committees and municipal boards.
The city also monitors progress every four months using an integrated management system to compare work done, and its economic impacts, with program objectives and milestones.

The biggest challenge that remains for the city on its way to the 2040 net-zero emissions goal is to greatly reduce or eliminate carbon emissions from transportation.
Nonetheless, the city is currently investigating the possibility of issuing a complete ban on fossil fuel sales in 2040 with interim restrictions put in place by 2030.
The port is working to increase the proportion of ships using dockside electrical connections instead of on-board fossil-fuel-fired generators.
In the future, port fees could be structured to provide shipping companies with incentives to use renewable fuels—such as biofuel or bio-oil—or LNG, a fossil fuel with lower emissions than oil or diesel, as well as the port’s electrical connections.
Biofuel Emissions and Offsets While in theory biofuel emissions can be exactly counterbalanced by the removal of an equal amount of CO2 by photosynthesis during plant growth (if an equal quantity of biofuels has been sustainably replanted), in practice this system rarely, if ever, works perfectly.
Biomass is usually grown, harvested, processed, and transported with energy generated by the combustion of fossil fuels.
(To minimize this risk, however, Stockholm is working to increase the future availability of biofuels.)
Nonetheless, the net emissions of biofuels used in Stockholm are significantly lower than they would be if an equivalent amount of fossil fuel had been used.
Stockholm’s efforts, of course, reach far beyond its transit sector to include energy efficiency in buildings as well as in heating and cooling and an effort to maximize the use of renewable energy.
He is the author of Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to the Climate Crisis and Climate Myths: The Campaign Against Climate Science.

The biggest challenge that remains for the city on its way to the 2040 net-zero emissions goal is to greatly reduce or eliminate carbon emissions from transportation.
Nonetheless, the city is currently investigating the possibility of issuing a complete ban on fossil fuel sales in 2040 with interim restrictions put in place by 2030.
The port is working to increase the proportion of ships using dockside electrical connections instead of on-board fossil-fuel-fired generators.
In the future, port fees could be structured to provide shipping companies with incentives to use renewable fuels—such as biofuel or bio-oil—or LNG, a fossil fuel with lower emissions than oil or diesel, as well as the port’s electrical connections.
Biofuel Emissions and Offsets While in theory biofuel emissions can be exactly counterbalanced by the removal of an equal amount of CO2 by photosynthesis during plant growth (if an equal quantity of biofuels has been sustainably replanted), in practice this system rarely, if ever, works perfectly.
Biomass is usually grown, harvested, processed, and transported with energy generated by the combustion of fossil fuels.
(To minimize this risk, however, Stockholm is working to increase the future availability of biofuels.)
Nonetheless, the net emissions of biofuels used in Stockholm are significantly lower than they would be if an equivalent amount of fossil fuel had been used.
Stockholm’s efforts, of course, reach far beyond its transit sector to include energy efficiency in buildings as well as in heating and cooling and an effort to maximize the use of renewable energy.
He is the author of Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to the Climate Crisis and Climate Myths: The Campaign Against Climate Science.

Sustainable Stockholm: Eco Hotels, Organic Restaurants, Sustainable Fashion, and Thoughtful Things to Do.
Then you will be obsessed with a certain Scandinavian city, Stockholm.
Stockholm is everything the modern conscious traveler could want out of a city.
However, I had the opportunity to visit this spring for a few days and wasn’t going to let that pass without ferreting out all the best places to shop for sustainable fashion, restaurants to visit, and even where to get a good smoothie.
I didn’t spend a lot of time in this neighborhood, but it was convenient to Gamla Stan and only a 20 minute walk to Sodermalm.
Paradiset (Soder and Norrmalm) – An organic food market
Other restaurants to try: I didn’t make it to these, but they’re at the top of my list for next time!
Here are the stores I visited and loved.
The sales associate gave me instructions for care and repair of my new wood and vegetable tanned leather shoes, which will age beautifully over time.
A mix of Swedish designers, this store carries organic cotton sneakers, knitwear made in England, selvedge denim, everything heritage, plus Swedish Stockings, nontoxic clothing detergent, Ecotex underwear, and classics like Adidas, and Doc Marten.

The biggest challenge that remains for the city on its way to the 2040 net-zero emissions goal is to greatly reduce or eliminate carbon emissions from transportation.
Nonetheless, the city is currently investigating the possibility of issuing a complete ban on fossil fuel sales in 2040 with interim restrictions put in place by 2030.
The port is working to increase the proportion of ships using dockside electrical connections instead of on-board fossil-fuel-fired generators.
In the future, port fees could be structured to provide shipping companies with incentives to use renewable fuels—such as biofuel or bio-oil—or LNG, a fossil fuel with lower emissions than oil or diesel, as well as the port’s electrical connections.
Biofuel Emissions and Offsets While in theory biofuel emissions can be exactly counterbalanced by the removal of an equal amount of CO2 by photosynthesis during plant growth (if an equal quantity of biofuels has been sustainably replanted), in practice this system rarely, if ever, works perfectly.
Biomass is usually grown, harvested, processed, and transported with energy generated by the combustion of fossil fuels.
(To minimize this risk, however, Stockholm is working to increase the future availability of biofuels.)
Nonetheless, the net emissions of biofuels used in Stockholm are significantly lower than they would be if an equivalent amount of fossil fuel had been used.
Stockholm’s efforts, of course, reach far beyond its transit sector to include energy efficiency in buildings as well as in heating and cooling and an effort to maximize the use of renewable energy.
He is the author of Climate Peril: The Intelligent Reader’s Guide to the Climate Crisis and Climate Myths: The Campaign Against Climate Science.

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